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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Dodge City, KS

June 14, 2003Ford County, Kansas

NWS Dodge City, KS issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2003, 2:25 PM CDT for Ford County, Kansas. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2003, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2003, 5:30 PM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Dodge City, KS
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ford County, KS

The radar

The Dodge City radar (KDDC), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Dodge City, (KDDC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 7 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 305 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dodge City, at 12:00Z on 2003-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -15 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1085 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KDDC 141925
FFWDDC
KSC057-142230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DODGE CITY KS
225 PM CDT SAT JUN 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DODGE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  FORD COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT

* AT 223 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 2 
  TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FELL ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST
  DODGE CITY. MINOR FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN SOUTH DODGE CITY NEAR
  THE INTERSECTION OF WILROADS GARDEN ROAD AND 112TH ROAD.
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...
  BUCKLIN,
  DODGE CITY,
  FORD,
  FT. DODGE,
  WILROADS GARDEN,

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCY AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN DODGE CITY.

LAT...LON 3790 9958 3748 9957 3750 10020 3790 10022

$$

BURKE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Dodge City, KS issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens50 min
Jun 13, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStanton34 min
Jun 13, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCMorton40 min
Jun 13, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDCStevens27 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kansas, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.